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Dream was sorting his chests with George. The morning sun lit up their room. Sapnap didn’t wake up yet-
But that’s what they thought.
George was checking his locator map. He spotted something.
”Dream, come and see this”
Dream watched in horror as he saw Sapnap’s pointer far away from their house. It was very faint, like he was about to die. This wasn’t normal for a locator map. If someone was dying, the pointer would fade in and out. A normal pointer was just opaque.
”W-where is Sapnap?!”
They immediately dashed to Sapnap’s room. It was empty. That means-
“Sapnap is gone!” George blurted out in both fear and surprise. If he was gone, why didn’t he tell them?
Dream was grabbing his armor. He got his axe and told George to get his one too.
They both followed headed towards the pointer. It was in the unexplored part of the forest. Nobody ever went there. Why would Sapnap be there?
George was running faster than Dream, but he started to get tired quickly. He didn’t realise when Dream came behind him with the map.
“He’s somewhere here”
Dream watched the map as his pointer and George’s one were right above the faint one. Suddenly, he spotted something. It was a room made out of blackstone. The room was hidden away, almost like a secret base.
Almost immediately, he ran over to it, pulling George with him. They looked at the iron door. Dream pulled his pickaxe out and swiftly mined through it. Nothing had prepared them for what they saw.
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Sapnap was motionless, but he could still see and hear everything. His head and arms were battered with bruises. His chest had two scars. His neck had a random red spot. His left arm was broken and bleeding. His legs were bleeding. He was on the verge of passing out.
Suddenly, he heard the sound of a door breaking. The breaking was followed by a horrified gasp. He heard a voice-
Dream’s voice
After what had happened, he expected nobody to come for him. Unexpectedly, his wrists felt free. The pressure that was on it left. It wasn’t like he could do anything, but it was nice to have his hands free. He felt like he was moving.
“George, get some potions. Sapnap needs them”
If he was being honest, it sounded like Dream was hiding concern in his voice.
But why would Dream care about me? He has George
Sapnap wanted his thoughts to be positive. It still seemed impossible. He felt relieved when a liquid fell into his mouth.
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Dream told George to get some potions. He decided to use the healing potions because they didn’t bring regeneration. While waiting, he was wondering why Sapnap would come to this part of the forest. It was bright during the day, but at night there are not torches to light up the area.
George came back with the potions, snapping him out of his thoughts. The bright pink fluid glowed as he opened the glass bottle. He knew that Sapnap couldn’t just wake up and drink it, so he started to hold the bottle against Sapnap’s mouth. The awkward silence filled the forest they were in.
After all the potion liquid disappeared, a few of the bruises disappeared. The scars remained. Dream knew he couldn’t carry Sapnap all the way back to the house. Luckily, there was a river that could carry them back to their house. George set his boat down and told Dream to put Sapnap on his boat.
During the boat ride, Dream and George had a conversation about how they can help heal Sapnap. It wasn’t very long until they arrived at their home, but Dream was worried for Sapnap as he peacefully sat unconsciously behind him.
Upon arriving, he set Sapnap on his bed that he was supposed to wake up on. George had given him some bandages to help with the bleeding. He also put the bandages on the broken arm. It didn’t take him much longer to notice his left eye looked a little... off.
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Sapnap woke up in his bed.
Was all of this just a bad nightmare?
His question was answered when he tried to get up but still felt the pain. He suddenly remembered everything that happened.
”Sapnap- you shouldn’t move as much! The bandages may fall off.”
”I thought y-you forgot about me after you started dating George” It hurt to talk. Was his vocal chords hit by the knife?
”You shouldn’t be talking either!” George said after opening the door, “But we would never forget you, even if we always ignore you.”
His headache was gone and his left arm didn’t feel broken anymore.
Maybe they do care about me
But of course Dream and George left him in his bed.
Maybe they don’t want me to recover.
He could still remember the face, the face of the killer. How his demonic red eyes glowed. How his hair was jet black. How he had red horns.
”Sapnap?”
He didn’t realise when George opened the door. George sounded concerned. Sapnap didn’t realise the wet feeling on his cheeks were tears.
George held the potion of regeneration out for Sapnap to drink.
Is that why he was gone?
Sapnap took the glowing pink potion and gulped it down. The scars on his legs were slowly fading away. His chest still had its scars, but it was barely visible.
“George?”
“Yeah?”
”C-can you tell me what happened?”
“Well we found you in that black room, you were unconscious. You also had a lot of scars.”
George didn’t know how Sapnap got his scars, but he assumed that someone hurt him.
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Dream was back at the room. He already told George he left. The room had a lot of weapons. There were axes and swords. There was also a lot of ropes. That was strange. With all these weapons, he assumed that the room was made to kill people. He still wondered why Sapnap would visit the unexplored part of the forest.
The room only had one window. There was also a lot of blood on the floor, but the blackstone makes it hard to see. He was confused about how Sapnap ended up in the room. His grip on his axe tightened.
Who would hurt my friends?
Nobody deserves to be hurt like this
Dream thought he was overreacting. People get hurt sometimes, but it hurts when your best friends get hurt.
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Sapnap was gulping down another healing potion. George had brewed another set of potions. Sure, his friends always ignored him. But maybe they didn’t forget about him.
Maybe they do care
Maybe they are just busy because they are dating
He was startled when Dream opened the door. George also seemed startled. Dream was holding a bloody axe. George decided to speak up.
”Why does that axe have blood on it?”
”Let’s just say one person is never coming back again”
Sapnap knew his friends were dating, but they still do care about him.